Federal electoral laws in effect at the time required a party to run 50 candidates in order to retain official status; as the CHP only was able to nominate 46 candidates by the nomination deadline, the party lost its registered status two days after the deadline. As a result, all of its candidates appeared on the ballot of the 2000 election as "non-affiliated". The party successfully ran at least 50 candidates in 2004 and regained status, and the law has since been changed to allow registration to parties running a single candidate.

This page also includes information about CHP candidates who contested by-elections between 2000 and 2004.

Kabashiki received 210 votes (1.01%), finishing last in a field of six candidates. His expenses for the by-election came to almost $10,000, an unusually high total for a minor party candidate. The winner was Raymond Simard of the Liberal Party of Canada.

As of 2005[update], Kabashiki is listed as president of the CHP riding association in St. Boniface.[1]